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CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw Quick Take — Good News for Clean Energy from the Supreme Court

How a case about a California law regulating sales of pork products will help insulate state clean energy laws from certain types of legal challenges.

June 7, 2023

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Files Comments on FERC Transmission Oversight

This week the Electricity Law Initiative filed comments in a FERC proceeding about transmission rates and planning processes. The comments respond to questions issued by FERC following an October 2022 […]

March 24, 2023

EELP News

Ari Peskoe Presents at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Meeting

On November 15, 2022 Ari participated in a panel discussion at the annual meeting of state utility commissioners in New Orleans. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) event […]

November 20, 2022

CleanLaw Podcast

CleanLaw—Current Challenges and Opportunities for Electric Transmission, with Ari Peskoe and Hannah Dobie

Ari and Hannah spoke about electric transmission regulation and how it has disincentivized regional transmission build out. They discuss Ari’s work in recent FERC transmission proceedings, and how Congress, states, and utilities can help catalyze transmission development to enable the clean energy transition.

October 30, 2022

Legal Analysis

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Click here to return to the Status of Biden Administration on Climate, Public Health and Environment, and Environmental Justice main page. To go directly to our Electric Transmission: Reforming Planning and […]

October 26, 2022

Comments Filed

Ari Peskoe Testifies at FERC Technical Conference on Transmission Planning and Costs, Files Statement and Evidence

On October 6, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) convened utilities, consumer advocates, state regulators, transmission customers, and other policy experts to discuss transmission rate oversight. The five-panel technical conference […]

October 12, 2022

Legal Analysis

Electricity Law Initiative Files Brief Supporting Clean Energy in the Southeast

The amicus brief provides context for the advocates’ arguments by explaining why FERC’s regulation of interstate transmission service is necessary to counteract utilities’ market power, highlighting the key principles underlying FERC’s transmission rules, and outlining how FERC’s approval of SEEM violates FERC’s transmission rules.

September 28, 2022

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Comments on FERC Transmission Planning Proposal

The Electricity Law Initiative filed a comment at FERC about its April 2022 proposal that would require utilities to engage in long-term transmission planning exercises. The Electricity Law Initiative’s comment responds to FERC’s proposal […]

August 17, 2022

Comments Filed

Electricity Law Initiative Director Authors Brief for 26 Law Professors

Electricity Law Initiative Director Ari Peskoe filed an amicus brief in the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals that was signed by 26 energy law professors. Co-written with University of […]

August 12, 2022